two quick queries

[MJ Berry]

Does anyone know the origin of the quotation?
   Svoboda pervaya zhertva strakha?
2) Does anyone know of a source for an English
translation of the Lebedev-Kumach song,
 Shiroka strana moya rodnaya?
Thanks for your help.Mike Berry



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Mike Berry
Centre for Russian and              Tel: 0121-414-6355
East European Studies,              Fax: 0121-414-3423
University of Birmingham,           email: m.j.berry.rus at bham.ac.uk
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

                   ***** Umom Rossiyu ne ponyat' *****
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